@Article{Bahl1974,
  author   = {L. Bahl and J. Cocke and F. Jelinek and J. Raviv},
  journal  = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT)},
  title    = {Optimal decoding of linear codes for minimizing symbol error rate (Corresp.)},
  year     = {1974},
  volume   = {20},
  number   = {2},
  pages    = {284-287},
  abstract = {The general problem of estimating the a posteriori probabilities of the states and transitions of a Markov source observed through a discrete memoryless channel is considered. The decoding of linear block and convolutional codes to minimize symbol error probability is shown to be a special case of this problem. An optimal decoding algorithm is derived.},
  keywords = {Convolutional codes;Decoding;Estimation;Linear codes;Markov processes},
  doi      = {10.1109/TIT.1974.1055186},
  ISSN     = {0018-9448},
  month    = mar,
}
